Highway To Mars

Back from 2 weeks working away and this week the Apocalypse and I returned to well worn zombie territory with 28 Days Later.

The third part of the Riddick trilogy returns to what riddick does best, surviving. Not perfect but there is a lot to enjoy about this late in the movie season offering.

Fandom is an interesting thing.  From the early days of geeks at late night venues talking doctor who to the modern fandom that has real power and ability to influence the shows they follow.  Gareth joins me with the Apocalypse to talk about fandom across the eras with a surprising lack of bad language.  

Falling Skies was a little overstuffed this season with plot lines but the good stuff was good, it had probably the best episode to date and the last 4 episodes rocked.

Rod Steigers man junk, mr shouty, Jim and Odile sans wine and the best of the stories dominate the discussion on The Illustrated Man.

The illustrated man is a widely celebrated collection of short stories by Ray Bradbury. As with all anthologies, there are some bright starts, then lesser lights usually because there is another story with the same theme that’s better. The first half is the weaker with the great opening of The Veldt and Kaleidoscope giving way […]

Not very subtle but beautiful in it’s own way.

Okay now I did have some trepidation about this movie but in all honesty – It’s the Bomb. I don’t often give movies a 10 but this one I do, only minor disappointment was that Jesse and Woody didn’t have much time to spark off each other but hey, it’s more than made for with […]

I haven’t played it but I have watched a play through and by god this is a beautiful game. Science fiction, retro with an impressive storyline and fantastic characters. Gareth talks Bioshock for me and now I soooo want to play the game.

The Worlds End = The End of the World... Get it?

No we don't only cover the "popular" stuff. This week, the 2006 movie UltraViolet which I don't hate like many reviewers it seems, but it certainly could have been a lot more than it ended up being.

John Wyndhams The Crysalids is probably his best book. A post apocalyptic view of the world and the consequences of Man's arrogance.

Big Arse Robots, Monsters, Riding Kangaroos, Selfies, some shameless Aussie Patriotism and why the Apocalypse is moaning about sore muscles.

Never kick a martian in the chronicles. Odile, Jim and Stefan work their way through Ray Bradbury’s collection of stories. This one is an epic and apologies for issues with the sound, Odile’s mic was having an off day – it needed a good hug. Due to the length we don’t have any synopsis however […]

Al and I catch up on Series 3. Aliens, Explosions, Intrigue, not to mention Body Snatching. This is every kind of invasion story all wrapped up in one and it does an awesome job while it’s at it. Facing up to limitations both technical and practical, the producers of this show have forged a gem […]

For some reason Superman is something of a polarising figure, maybe because he represents something America aspires to be but falls short of, so he is the twin ideal and reminder of failings. Either way this version is either great or crap depending on your point of view. We went to see the movie, loved […]

We like being meta on Highway to Mars and what is more meta than a podcast on a podcast, well I guess we could review a podcast that reviews podcasts but that would be silly now wouldn’t it. (File in ideas bank). Shake and Blake is an awesome podcast that covers the Blakes 7 series […]

World War Z, awesome Zombie movie and while we have probably had “enough” Zombie movies over the past few years it was nice to see a movie that treated them seriously. It had all of us on the edge of our seats and it’s been a while since that happened.

The first of the Vin Diesel/Riddick movies and to be honest a fine start. While I don’t totally get the Riddick character here (is he a sick twisted evil man or just misunderstood?) there are a couple of really good characters and the premise is awesome. Overall I love this film but the Riddick character […]

Moooooooooooooooo! That is all.